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Roadhouse Barbeque to replace Vinny T's

The Brookline TAB reports that Vinny T's in Washington Square, that venerable shrine to quantity over quality, is to be replaced by a restaurant to be called the Roadhouse Barbecue. The new owners are the couple who own the nearby Publick House. If they can do for 'cue what they do for beer, this could be very good news!

Yes, it was Walter's. Said it was a wine bar and restaurant as I remember. Ye Olde Brookline, gone with the wind, like Papillon near Harvard, Alden-Merrill (which itself replaced Steve's Hardware) and even Erewhon in the Village.

....and before it was Walter's it was Novak's, I think. I used to go to Walter's all the time with my grandparents. It was that sort of place. I think it is stretching it to call Walter's a wine bar, though. It definitely had that old-school, "continental" 1970s feel.